User Post: "Mother" means "risk-taker"...(in 100 words or less)

I looked at the positive sign on the pregnancy test feeling overwhelmed with awe. A human life had been placed into my hands for safekeeping on a journey beginning with total dependency and, if I do my job right, moving toward (relative) independence.

Now I have four lives depending on me for psychological,emotional, physical and mental well being. Four lives to shape, mold and refine.

Of course, what I did not know nine years ago is that my own soul is the one who is being shaped, molded, and refined in this process.

And that is the ultimate risk.

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You can read more of Melanie's musings at her blogs, tales from the crib and (after)life.